What you need to know
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSLord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School stands empty after all 15 schools in the Lord Selkirk School Division were closed due to social media threats in Selkirk on Monday.
Back to school in Selkirk: Students will return to class after the Lord Selkirk School Division closed all 15 of its learning centres Monday in the wake of online threats. RCMP arrested three people Sunday night, but the division decided to close the schools anyway. Ryan Thorpe reports. READ MORE
Paris protests: The French government is reportedly delaying a planned gas tax hike in a bid to quell protests in which three people have been killed and hundreds injured. READ MORE
Weather
Your forecast: There will be a mix of sun and cloud today, with patches of fog dissipating this morning, a high of -6 C, wind from the southwest at 20 km/h gusting to 40 and windchill as low as -17.
What’s happening today
CPWinnipeg Jets’ Mark Scheifele (55), left, and Patrik Laine (29)
Dynamic duo: The Jets will seek their fourth consecutive win when they face the Islanders in New York at 6 p.m. Jason Bell reports on how the team’s hottest two stars, Mark Scheifele and Patrik Laine, are both on pace to score 50 goals. READ MORE
Night at the museum: Indigenous leader Derek Nepinak will end 27 hours of fasting at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in a replica of late South African leader Nelson Mandela’s prison cell. That’s one hour for each year Mandela was imprisoned. READ MORE
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Winning wager: In his latest column, Niigaan Sinclair says First Nations casinos are worth a gamble. READ MORE
Tories take byelection: The federal Conservatives easily held on to a longtime stronghold in eastern Ontario with a convincing win in last night’s byelection. READ MORE
On this date
On Dec. 4, 1928: The Manitoba Free Press reported that King George V of England was improving in health, but that his heart trouble was still causing anxiety. Canada’s governor general Vincent Massey was among representatives of the British Empire making an official visit to Washington, D.C. A Saskatchewan man used dynamite to blow himself and two women up, in an apparent attempt to get revenge on one of the women for rejecting him; he asked one of the women to marry him and put his cigarette to a stick of dynamite upon being refused. READ MORE
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